What Claude Fable Means for Coding Agents

Nicolay Gerold works all day and night on AMP, one of the most interesting coding-agent harnesses out there.
If you’re building with coding agents, this conversation will help you understand:
* when to trust the model,
* when to build harnesses around it,
* which model is worth paying for,
* which programming languages gives the agent better feedback, and
* when to take the keyboard back.
Coding-agent products are living inside a blender. Opus 4.8 to Fable changes what the model can be trusted with, eats a workflow, and suddenly the best product decision is to delete code.
AMP had handoff…